Jacques Grévin: Quick Facts

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Born	1538 • France
Died	November 5, 1570 (aged 32) • Turin • Italy

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French poet and dramatist

Jean de La Taille

French author

Népomucène Lemercier

French author

Voltaire

French philosopher and author

Jean Racine

French dramatist

Victor Hugo

French writer

Pierre Marivaux

French author

Jules Romains

French author

Étienne Jodelle

French author

Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin

French author

Catulle Mendès

French author

François-Juste-Marie Raynouard

French dramatist

Marc-Antoine de Muret

French author

Théophile de Viau

French author

William Shakespeare

English author

John Dryden

British author

Franz Grillparzer

Austrian dramatist

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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Pietro Aretino

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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